Re: In-vitro cultivation of Amorph. titanum and Identification

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2000.12.06 at 16:15:25(5759) Dear Bjoern, Question 2: if no expert will show him/herself, I might suggest some names: 002 = muelleri, red margins or not. 003 = excentricus 004 = excentricus 005 = excentricus 007 = elatus The name "albispathus" for your Chinese species should read albus One other thing: your site was extraordinarily slow, both the opening of individual pages as well as the appearing of photos. Cheers, Wilbert +More > 2.) From my excursion last October/November I brought some Amorphophallus > species back from northern and southern Thailand, of which I do not have > any clue so far what species these might be. > > If anyone is interested, please have a look at some of the fotos I took > and some descriptions on plants and their habitats at: > > http://www.rareplants.de/plants/seeds/araceae.htm > > New species from Thailand are numbered Spec.002 to Spec.007 > > For Spec.002 it was suggested that it may be Amorph. muelleri, yet young > leaves didn't show any red margins (not even a little bit), stems are mottled > kind of different than those of Amorph. muelleri and corms are of light > orange-beige color, which I think is different as well. An adult specimen > weighed some 20 lbs / 9kg. > > For Spec.007 it was suggested Amorph. krausei, yet the ones I found didn't > make any rhizomatous offsets and (very unsual) the rhizomatous-like corm > grows vertically in the ground and is pure white, turning deep violet after a > few days when being at plain air. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Best wishes and Happy Holidays! > > Bj?rn Malkmus > Dipl.rer.oec. > http://www.rareplants.de > > -- > Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net >

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